Tuesday, November 27, 2012

After countless hours of work, the character designs are finally done.
How I went about the powers and designating them to each individual
character worked through a simple method.

Their personalities.

Based upon everyone's traits/interests/hobbies, their powers ended up
reflecting who they are on the inside. Some characters were challenging
because not everyone has a huge fighting spirit, so choosing their
powers came to be a difficulty. However, through conversing with the
cast themselves I learned a lot more about how to approach the
situation. It helped give me a lot of insight on how they interpret
themselves or wish to be interpreted. Not only did I learn more about my
friends, but I also managed to draw them as they see fit.

Below are the finalized Character sheets which reveal the main characters that will appear in the animatic and promotional art.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Unfortunately I ended up getting myself behind in schedule, I was bombarded with work over the weekend and only managed to whip out three character sheets. However, they are of good quality (in my opinion) and I
don't want to rush a numerous amount of characters just for a due date.
I'll either be spreading the character sheets/ background settings/
concept art during each post to better even out the quality of the work.

But anyway.

Below are Character sheets of myself and two others that appear in the story. I kept in mind that everything needs to be simplified. However, I didn't want to lose the unique qualities that everyone has, compromising, I kept the style in the form I usually work with for animation purposes, while retaining the characters specific qualities.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Normally I don't get ahead of the game but for once in my life I'm gonna give it a shot.

For the longest time I've had this question in my head,

"What would it be like if life was one giant anime?"

This always fascinated me and I just have the weird mind that likes to see everyone and everything around me in an animated manor. It can turn the tiniest little moments into works of epic proportions.

Well I finally decided to answer that question with an autobiography of my life.

Except this time. My life is going to be a little bit more crazy than I thought.

Synopsis

"The name of the story is simply called "Life" and the setting takes part in the middle of my life as of now. While the past is part of the story, I chose to focus on giving a demo of my current endeavors through college. It's much more exciting and offers a bigger batch of colorful characters. Now what makes this autobiography different from a normal one, is not only the fact that it's an anime, but it's mostly because everyone in it has superhuman abilities.You're probably asking....How in the hell can this be anything like your real life?The answer is simple!Real life events remain the same but certain aspects are explained through battle instead of verbal arguments. In short psychological struggles can be physically represented through action sequences.

The way this world runs is through a system that everyone wears on their wrist. These devices are new in technology and offer a wide range of gadgets and applications; It can even be used as a smart phone. It opens the users to a world of possibilities. One of those possibilities is the option of battle, and is a major part of the story's premise. In this world, battling is a huge sport, and people all around the globe participate in competitions for prizes, not to mention it's a great way to stay active and relieve stress. The way these battles work is simply through an exchange of a single button, once activated, the users literally rip a hole through time and space entering an alternate universe where they gain powers and abilities unfathomable by mankind. These powers are personified by the users personalities and is coordinated to them as such. The more you fight, the stronger your powers become."

Now in this story, the device is used for personal fights.
One on one matches are available and users have a tendency to abuse this to a certain degree.

Below are preliminary sketches to illustrate what everyone will look like stylized along with some examples of our powers and abilities.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

This time I took a little more responsibility than what was necessary
and gave Colin a hand with the poster design for the Project. The
composition was what I kept in mind and the original design was
difficult to work with, I wanted it to appear dynamic but not too
crammed, so I did the cliche side to side face effect. Went for a hard
light with a little bit of color distortion for the values.

(edit: I had to adjust the girls tone and eyes seeing that she appears differently within the internet.)